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$1,679.99 from Amazon today, against a $999 launch price and a $1,249.99 tracked low. The price record, what the extra $500 over a 5070 Ti buys on Nvidia's own spec sheet, and the numbers to buy at.
Voltage · 3d ago · 7 min
AI demand spiked consumer GPU prices into a mid-2026 peak — and they're cooling off it now, unevenly. The current numbers vs MSRP, why the RTX 5090 won't budge, and what's actually worth buying.
Voltage · Sep 22 · 7 min
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Ledger · Aug 26 · 7 min
Viral clearance-cage GPU finds are real — but chasing them on purpose is a bad plan, and the GDDR7 shortage explains why everyone's suddenly hunting.
Ledger · Aug 25 · 6 min
somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move
Voltage · Aug 22 · 7 min
The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close.
Ledger · Aug 19 · 6 min
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB launched $120 under the RTX 5070 to win on value. This week, several retailers have that flipped completely.
Voltage · Aug 19 · 7 min
The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is $805 now. The RX 9060 XT 16GB is still under $430. Here's whether Nvidia's edge is still worth the gap.
Voltage · Aug 18 · 6 min
the 16GB version is up 88% since launch. the 8GB version barely moved. here's the real math if you're buying for local AI, not just gaming.
Voltage · Aug 16 · 7 min
Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Voltage · Aug 15 · 6 min
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Ledger · Aug 14 · 8 min
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Voltage · Aug 14 · 8 min
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile market reports said the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled this year. What the numbers show, including our own rental-price data.
Voltage · Aug 13 · 7 min
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Voltage · Aug 13 · 6 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Ledger · Aug 11 · 6 min
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Ledger · Aug 10 · 7 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Ledger · Aug 7 · 6 min
AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Ledger · Aug 6 · 6 min
AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Voltage · Aug 5 · 7 min
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Voltage · Aug 4 · 6 min
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Voltage · Aug 4 · 8 min
A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Voltage · Aug 4 · 7 min
MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.
Voltage · Aug 3 · 6 min
the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Voltage · Aug 2 · 6 min
The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Voltage · Aug 1 · 6 min
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Voltage · Aug 1 · 7 min
Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.
Voltage · Jul 31 · 7 min
MSI, PNY and Colorful raised RTX 50-series distributor prices by up to 59% over MSRP. The cause isn't greed — it's the same memory shortage that's been quietly inflating everything with a chip in it. Here's whether to buy now.
Voltage · Jul 28 · 8 min